A Balanced Usability Checklist Approach to Evaluate Palestinian Hotel Websites

Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-12

  Abdinnour Helm, Sue ^a   Chaparro, Barbara S ^a  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Checklist; Hotel; Palestine; Tourism; Usability; Website Evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 73349136120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16814835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1681-4835.2007.tb00211.x     Document Type: Article

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